TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ahmed Naji
AU  - Ahmed Fakharany
AU  - Azza Sultan
AU  - Belal Fadl
AU  - Camellia Hussein
AU  - Michel Hanna
AU  - Mansoura Ez Eldin
AU  - Nora Nagi
AU  - Heba Khamis
AU  - Mohamed Kheir
AU  - Ahmed Wael
AU  - Yasmine El Rashidi
AU  - Majd Abu Shawish
AU  - Robin Moger
AU  - Andrew Leber
AU  - Elisabeth Jaquette
AU  - Mohammed Ghalayini
AU  - Raphael Cohen
AU  - Raph Cormack
AU  - Paul Starkey
AU  - Mayada Ibrahim
AU  - Basma Ghalayini
AU  - Maisa Almanasreh
AU  - Rana Asfour
TI  - Egypt +100: Stories from a Century after Tahrir
SN  - 9781912697700
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Great Britain
PB  - Comma Press
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Short stories
KW  - 21st century
N2  - "Egypt + 100 poses a question to twelve contemporary Egyptian authors: what might your country look like in the year 2111 – exactly a century after the failed Tahrir Square Revolution? Might Egypt still be in the grip of ‘friendly authoritarianism’, clinging to power with all the weapons of futurism at its disposal: protest-avoidant architecture, excessive surveillance, the slow replacement of the outside world with the virtual one. Or might other historical forces come into play, pairing pragmatism with tolerance, and realising some of the lost aspirations of the long-cancelled ‘Arab Spring’.

Covering a range of styles – from SF noir, to supernatural horror, to political farce – these stories use the blank canvas of the future to process recent traumas that Egypt has yet to come to terms with. Along the way, we encounter gladiatorial entertainments, anti-procreation resistance movements, the decline of Cairo into a lawless wasteland, far from the gated security of the New Capital, and the simultaneous flooding of lower Egypt with the drying up of the Nile. Each story offers an object lesson in the strange logic of authoritarianism, and how, as the editor puts it, politicians’ fantasies ‘eventually become the citizens’ worst nightmares.’" --Provided by publisher
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